Monday Musings: October 18, 2010

Alright, here’s the latest Angle gaffe: She goes to Las Vegas’ Rancho High School to convince the schools Hispanic Student Union that she’s not really a bigot or a racist, and the students ask her about the Angle ads condemning Harry Reid of delivering tax breaks, and every other perk on the planet to ‘illegals’

Now watch the ad carefully :

Here’s what Sharron Angle told the students -

“I think that you’re misinterpreting those commercials,” Angle tells the students.

“I’m not sure that those are Latinos in that commercial. What it is, is a fence and there are people coming across that fence. What we know is that our northern border is where the terrorists came through. That’s the most porous border that we have. We cannot allow terrorists, we cannot allow anyone to come across our border if we don’t know why they’re coming. So, we have to secure all of our borders and that’s what that was about, is border security.”

Here’s what one student said:

“She said that they were just people crossing the fence, but they weren’t Latinos. And then she said some of us don’t even look Latino, we could be Asian,” said Debbie Rios, 16, a junior at Rancho who was sitting in the front row at the assembly, which drew about 50 to 60 people. “She dodged the question; she didn’t really answer it.”

You know, Angle probably has a point. Hordes of French-Canadians are probably pouring across the northern border into the U. S. looking for expensive health insurance.

Canadians, Mexicans, Asians … they all look alike in the dark, with hoodies on.

But notice the ad makes repeated references to Mexico and the Arizona anti-immigrant law. So, there’s your proof. She’s worried about terrorists coming from Canada.

Sheesh. See, this is what happens when you allow people getting their marching orders beamed in through a tinfoil helmet to enter politics or public life.

“Sharron has said several times before that illegal immigration is not about race. It is about the rule of law in this country. It would be a misinterpretation to think that one group of people should be singled out,” Angle campaign spokesman Jarrod Agen said Saturday.

“The issue is that we must stop illegal immigration by security our borders, both northern and southern, and by enforcing our immigration laws,” he said. “Harry Reid does not want to end illegal immigration; he is pro-amnesty.”

Uh, Jarrod, if you want to be completely unambiguous about the illegal immigration thing, here’s a suggestion: Show a diverse group of scary ‘illegals’ in your ads next time.

Oh, and quite trying to say that being in favor of doing something fair regarding illegals who are here already ( an incremental and careful type of amnesty program ) is the same thing as being ‘in favor’ of illegal immigration. (“Harry Reid favors so-called ‘amnesty’ therefore he must favor illegal immigration? False analogy? Straw Man argument? Appeal to emotion? It’s faulty reasoning anyway.)

Or quit peeing on my shoes, Jarrod and telling me that it’s raining.

If this mid-term election proves nothing else, it will demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that we need publicly financed political campaigns. For just a moment, try to visualize what the last several months would’ve been like with equal public financing. Without the shadowy front groups.

When campaigns can be financed by vast personal wealth (think the two women over in California. No, not Boxer. Fiorina and Whitman) or failing that - when you’re living on a Federal/BLM pension like Angle - you get Karl Rove to march in with Crossroads GPS and throw millions at your campaign - is that really what the Founders had in mind for First Amendment protected free speech?

At least the Reno Gazette-Journal got it right and endorsed Harry Reid - Jon Ralston notwithstanding.

The RGJ editorial in Sunday’s paper was as strong and well-reasoned argument for dumping Angle and supporting Harry Reid as I’ve seen anywhere.

If you aren’t happy with the partisan gridlock in Washington D. C., then why in the world would you want to make it worse by sending the Queen of Nay, Angle, there? To lamely offer that she’ll be junior and therefore ‘harmless’ for six years until the GOP can find a ‘better’ candidate is simply ludicrous. She never reached across the aisle during her years in the Assembly, so why would she start now?

Polls have shown that the average person doesn’t want partisan bickering and stalemates. They expect the party sharing power to uh, “Man up” and be a part of the solution. Candidates like Angle have more than demonstrated that they are on a search and destroy mission, and compromise is not part of it. They see victories as a referendum on Obama, rather than a chance to solve problems.

So let’s send the person voted “least effective” by her peers in the Nevada Assembly. Yup. That’ll do it - send the obstinate, wacky, intellectually bankrupt one.

She can join forces with the other Super Hero from Nevada - Sen. John Ensign, R-NV who has reportedly spent more than $500,000 in the last three months on legal expenses. Uh, they’re probably related to those pesky stories of gross infidelity and payoffs.

Yup, if the rest of the country didn’t already have that queasy feeling that Nevada was the place of Area 51, hidden aliens and just generally crazy shit that stays in Vegas, this should really cap it. That ranks right up there with doubling down when the dealer is showing a face card. Duh.

Finally, we lost one of our tee-vee icons over the weekend. Barbara Billingsly of ‘Leave it to Beaver’ fame died. She was that nice lady named June, that never raised her voice, never told the men to “Man up”, was always dressed nice. I’ll bet she always smelled nice, too.

Sharron Angle got the role of June Cleaver confused with reality. And unfortunately, there are a lot of other people doing the same thing. Most of them belong to the Tea Party.

Well, have a tolerable work week or a good one if you must.

Check back in occasionally for updates - not through your tinfoil helmet though. Take that damn thing off and put it away until Halloween … aka Nevada Day.

-maven

Update on Monday, October 18, 2010 at 11:00 by mavenandmeddler

And now Ms Angle becomes completely confused about her own ethnic heritage:

“So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that,” Angle said, according to video posted by the Nevada paper. “What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country.”

Angle then claimed that she too has been confused as a different ethnicity, seemingly in an attempt to illustrate her melting pot point.

“I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly,” Angle said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43757.html#ixzz12jbYIPAP